The Price of Gas!

This is an entertaining flash animation sent to me.
http://toccionline.kizash.com/films/1001/178/index.php
I found a couple of other ones by this same person.

Call me ignorant, but what has caused the price of gas to sky rocket?

In 2003 the cost of crude oil was around $28. Looking today, it seems to be around $65. That's more than double! The average price of gas in 2003 was $1.56. Does this mean we should expect to be paying $3 per gallon soon?

Source of 2003 numbers.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications/primer_on_gasoline_prices/html/petbro.html

Source of today's numbers
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities/energyprices.html

What has cause the cost of crude to go up so much? Is the cost of crude the major factor in the price of gas. Does it really cost this much more to produce gas?

At what point do we start buying big tanks and hoard gas like was done in the 70's?

Here is an interesting site that lets you see gas prices at various stations in your area.
http://www.gasbuddy.com/

Blogger profile
--Internal dialog on--
Okay this is stream of consciousness.. so stop obsessing over the fact that you can not name or cannot figure out how to name this post.... and write something
--internal dialog off--
Wow. I do not know what I should be more scared of here. The fact that blogger.com (aka Google) is asking me for all this information, the fact that I acutally entered a bunch of stuff, or the fact that it linked me to like 40,000+ other people by entering about 300 characters into three form fields and hit save. I've had conversations with a friend of mine about the fact that they liked google, but was starting to get a little scared with Google's obsession of being the planets single source for information. They may have a point.

That's all I've got time for this morning. I wonder how much I can put in this blog thing without getting in trouble at work. Anybody have any comments on that last part? Any sage advice here?

Okay blogger.com. your spell check sucks. why don't you use those connections at Google and integrate their GMail spell check. It is much better. Oh well folks you'll have to deal with bad spelling until I schedule more time for posting.

Stream of consciousness

So a first post. I guess most bloggers have to do this. I wouldn't say this is my first blog post ever, but I am a novice at this. For a while in college I had a website where I would basically blog on the home page. This was before the cool buzz work "Blog" was used. I was never very diligent at keeping the site updated, probably because of the fact that while I didn't mind writing html, it seemed too much overhead for just getting your thoughts down. A former coworker of mine did this about the same time, but had much more success at keeping things updated. Last I checked thou his site was down as well.

So why are we here. The title of this post and blog is "Stream of consciousness" see "WikiPedia" --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_of_consciousness for a definition.

This is what I hope to get out of this blog. Write down some of my thoughts that would otherwise evaporate into the ether.

Hopefully this is an average to better first post. I tend to think it is probably average or less than average so that may give you some incite into my personality. As with anything, skill comes over time. Hopefully my blogging ability and writing style will develop. As with anything feedback is helpful. So let me know what you think about both the content, topic, writing quality, or anything else that sticks out about this blog.

Let's see where this takes us!